Title Culture of profession in late Renaissance Italy / George W. McClure

Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 373 pages) Contents Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Humanist and Theological Backgrounds -- Chapter 2 Professions at Play: Jokes, Carnevale Songs, and Parlour Games -- Chapter 3 Shuffling the Deck: Tomaso Garzoni's Universal Piazza of All the Professions of the World -- Chapter 4 Learned Cooks and Culinary Lawyers: High, Middle, and Low Profession in the Universal Piazza -- Chapter 5 Professions on Display: Dress and Ritual in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice -- Chapter 6 The Arts and the 'Art of Dying' in Venice: Vocation in a Renaissance Death Book -- Chapter 7 Conclusion NotesBibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z Summary From Latin humanists to popular writers, Italian Renaissance culture spawned a lively debate on vocational choice and the nature of profession. In The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy, George W. McClure examines the turn this debate took in the second half of the Renaissance, when the learned 'praise and rebuke' of profession began to be complemented with more popular forms of discourse, and when less learned vocations made their voice heard. Focusing primarily on sources assembled and published in the sixteenth century, McClure's study explores professional themes in comic, festive, and popular print culture. A pivotal figure is Tomaso Garzoni, a monk whose popular encyclopedia, Universal Piazza of all the Professions of the World, was published in 1585. A funnel for earlier traditions and an influence on later ones, this massive compendium treated over 150 categories of profession - juxtaposing the world of philosophers and poets, lawyers and physicians, merchants and artisans, teachers and printers, cooks and chimneysweeps, prostitutes and procurers. If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this and other sources reveal a professional ethos more democratic in nature and bespeak the full cultural discovery of the middling and lowly professions in the late Renaissance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Professions -- Italy -- History -- 16th century Occupations -- Italy -- History -- 16th century Popular culture -- Italy -- History -- 16th century Renaissance -- Italy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- Renaissance. Manners and customs Occupations Popular culture Professions Renaissance Beroepen. Beroepspraktijk. Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis) Yrkesroller. Yrken -- historia -- Italien -- renässansen. SUBJECT Italy -- Social life and customs -- 16th century Subject Italy Italien -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- renässansen. Italien -- vardagsliv och traditioner -- historia -- nenässansen. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442681071 1442681071 1281992712 9781281992710 9786611992712 6611992715

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